The extremely short answer: No.
The longer answer:
Unless you’re a personal friend of mine or you’ve stalked my LinkedIn profile recently, then you don’t know what has been going on in my work life lately.
But no worries, I’ll let you in on it.
I started working full-time at a company in the business conference production industry. Very interesting industry in and of itself.
And I’m in a great role too that involves marketing, copywriting, and email marketing. Basically, it’s an extension of what I’m doing already, and I’m grateful to be brought onboard.
Since I’ve been working by myself for the past year or so, I think this is a great way to break myself out of my “copywriting echo chamber” and expand my knowledge.
Unfortunately, there’s not much I can talk about so far since it has only been two weeks since I started.
But here’s what I can talk about:
That new job anxiety feeling.
That feeling lingered for the past few weeks before my start date partly because I was expecting to be thrown into the fire, so to speak.
No training, or at least very minimal, and I got to just start pumping out emails right off the bat. And that wouldn’t do anything but set me up to fail.
But it wasn’t like that at all. It was quite the opposite, really.
For the first two weeks, I basically learned how to use their CRM and email marketing software, and learned how to write high performing emails. And even though a lot of what I was taught was already familiar to me to a certain degree, I still sat through every training session with my mouth shut (Unless I had questions) and furiously took notes as if I had zero copywriting and email marketing experience.
The other reason has to do with imposter syndrome, which I have talked about in the past.
That alone caused many not-so-good thoughts, including but not limited to:
People thinking the way I write copy sucks.
My ideas are bad (The marketing team is super open to hearing new ideas and testing them, which I think is a great sign).
And my favorite:
My email campaigns bombing, which means no leads are generated, which means no sales made, which means no revenue coming in, which means employees can’t get paid, and that leads to people getting laid off, and that ultimately leads to the company burning down.
Now that I wrote that on “digital paper.” I realize just how ridiculous that thought is and how unlikely that’ll happen, but I still find it a bit funny.
Anyways, there are two things I’d like for you to take away from this.
1. Always be open to learning, even if it’s the most basic material. Again, I came to each of my training sessions as if I was a complete beginner marketer. If I came in with a “know-it-all” attitude and acted like I was too good for their training, nothing but bad things would’ve happened.
2. Your mind will always make situations seem much worse than they actually are. Sometimes, it’ll get so bad to the point where you’ll want to back out. But it’ll all be good as long as you maintain a can-do attitude, which saved me from backing out of client work multiple times.
With that said, I’ll still be around taking client work, only with less capacity now. And I’ll still be writing to you everyday, so no worries there.
Speaking of:
If you want to learn more about my email copywriting ways, then check out How to Become an Email Titan.